Talent Acquisition Executive

Working as a key part of the people talent team, specifically focusing on talent acquisition across Finance, Tech and Transformation. The successful candidate will ensure these areas can attract and recruit the best talent in the market.

• Job Title – Talent Acquisition Executive
• Location – BL9 8RR
• Working rota – Monday to Friday
• Working hours – 40

• Full recruitment life-cycle management; from full brief to actively headhunting and successful offer management.
• Build an external bank of talent within your related disciplines, through proactive recruitment and networking events, and innovative talent pipelining strategies.
• Proactively build the JD employer brand externally within your network, utilising social media, events and careers fairs.
• Relaying initial candidate insights to the hiring manager at critical points such as interview and offer management stages.
• Maintain a positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process, ensuring candidates are well informed and looked after at each stage of the recruitment journey.
• Ensure business areas follow a structured interview process, identifying high performing candidates within the market that match our business requirements and values.
• Provide in depth acquisition data to the Talent Acquisition senior leadership team and line managers for review.
• Collate, upload and manage live vacancies onto ATS, LinkedIn and other resourcing outlets.

• Experience in recruiting roles within Finance, Tech or Transformation preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience in managing stakeholders throughout hiring cycles is advantageous.
• An excellent external network & knowledge of good acquisition practices in other leading organisations which is kept up to date.
• Proficient in using HR & ATS platforms.
• Competent using LinkedIn Recruiter.

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications.

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.